WebMonitor RAT

The WebMonitor RAT is a Remote Access Trojan that can give an attacker control over your PC, including collecting information like passwords. Since it's selling to third-party criminals on underground websites, it may infect your PC through different methods, possibly, including spam e-mails, malvertising, or exploit kits. Most anti-malware products can remove a WebMonitor RAT appropriately, after which, users should re-secure their credentials and accounts.

A Rat Scurries Under Not-So-Plausible Deniability

The difference between a legal Remote Access Tool and an illegal Remote Access Trojan is, frequently, more than a little vague. While both programs can share the bulk of their features and, broadly, their purpose of remotely-controlling a system, some functions are specific to the Trojan variant. With the WebMonitor RAT, while all indications are on its being on the second category, its developer company remains insistent on the former.

The WebMonitor RAT is, despite all pretensions of legality, being sold on underground forums like any other Trojan, for third-party criminals' hiring and running campaigns against the targets of their preference. Its installation routine includes silent options that don't provide pop-ups for the local user's information. After installing, it can conduct different, system-control-oriented attacks, depending on the tier that the attacker is renting.

The WebMonitor RAT includes a keylogger for recording keyboard-typed information, a webcam monitor, a plugin for collecting credentials like e-mail accounts' passwords, screen snapshots, and, potentially, unlimited concurrent task management. Another warning flag malware experts highlight is its compatibility with encryption utilities that threat actors use for concealing their black market software from security solutions.

Breaking a Monitor before It Pops Your Privacy

The WebMonitor RAT has almost all of the defining elements of being a Trojan, rather than a legitimate tool, including how its company of Revcode markets it, along with the features it displays. Its history, also, has difficult-to-overlook cues for being suspicious – associated credit information ties the company to Alex Yücel, previously convicted for the BlackShades RAT. While it has similar attacks to the WebMonitor RAT, BlackShades is rather more notorious, for now, thanks to its use in Syrian military conflicts.

Users should assume no symptoms as being the default modus operandi for a WebMonitor RAT infection. Most threat actors run Remote Access Trojan s without showing any signals that they're collecting information, modifying your browsing experience or monitoring your computer. Most anti-malware products will detect this RAT and removing WebMonitor RAT should pose no problems for the majority of such tools in the cyber-security industry.

Protestations of innocence are easy to come by but don't make up for self-condemning actions. If RevCode is selling legitimate software, then it behooves the developers to redesign the WebMonitor RAT for more legally-acceptable purposes.